Alaska

Alaska will give each resident more than $2,000 next month as the annual payout from an oil wealth trust fund, as a state revenue official announced this week.

About 645,000 residents will receive the payout from The Alaska Permanent Fund, said Jerry Burnett, deputy commissioner for the Alaska Department of Revenue.

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. 

Brad Rich went out into the open seas off the shores of Seward in Alaska to record a humpback whale. Watch what happens, as he is absorbed recording the sea gulls. He will never forget it! His reaction is priceless.

A sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska June 25 killing all nine people onboard, US police said.

President Barack Obama on May 14 called US oil production an "important" source of energy as America transitions towards cleaner resources, defending his move to allow petroleum giant Shell to drill in the Alaskan Arctic.

A flight between London and New York lasts about seven hours. But for adventure lovers everywhere, there may soon be a second choice: To drive there!

At least 35,000 walruses have beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline in a phenomenon blamed on the melting of arctic ice due to climate change, experts said Oct. 1.